424 Quotes About Adulthood

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

All fathers are liars . . . If you want to be a father, you have to be prepared to become a liar.

Life’s too short to dread five days a week to only enjoy the remaining two.

Being in love is insanely vulnerable. You’re walking up to a person, ripping open your chest, exposing your heart, and asking them not to stab it. It takes courage to give someone the ability to know you completely and to crush you undeniably.

So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother?

Parents are like consumer brands in that, as kids, we remember only two or three key things about them, missing the nuance you only appreciate as you get older and realize people are complicated.

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.